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Jon is Currently Reading

Jon Gill is currently reading

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 1997

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(page 20 of 129)
— May 19, 2026 05:38AM

Jul 07, 2016 11:11AM

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Roughing It

by Mark Twain

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— May 20, 2026 05:43PM

May 12, 2026 07:09AM

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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— May 13, 2026 05:56AM

May 09, 2026 08:18AM

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Jon’s Quotes

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: science-miracles

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“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: men, ray-bradbury, sin, truth

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“The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: apocalypse, death, hells-angels, humor

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